{"product_id":"play-it-as-it-lays-fsg-classics-by-joan-didion","title":"Play It As It Lays (FSG Classics) (NEW) \/ by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFSG, 2005. Trade paperback. New. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePlay It as It Lays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecaptures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56120790483110,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/playit.webp?v=1769102654","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/play-it-as-it-lays-fsg-classics-by-joan-didion","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}